bustum

Many of us In England had seen press reports of the 'bustum' burial in Southwark, just south of the Thames.

Writing The Falco Series by Lindsey Davis 2010

It is forbidden for a vestibule of a sepulcher (_forum_) and a burning-mound (_bustum_) [67] to be acquired by usucapion.

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

Pyrrhe, Gaetulae catulos leaenae? 'and Lucan VIII 529-30' bustum cineresque _mouere_/Thessalicos audes bellumque in regna uocare? '.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

The words _bustum_ and _sepulchrum_, therefore, though often loosely used as synonymous, are not in fact so, the latter being involved in, but by no means comprehending the former.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

How absurd old fashioned antiquaries were may be proved by the fact that the chimney that warmed the monks, and up which went the smoke from their kitchen, was pronounced to be a _bustum_, a flue employed for the cremation of the dead.

Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe 1879

When the bones were afterward buried on the spot where they were burned, it was called “bustum.”] [Footnote 38: _Troubles itself about that_) -- Ver.

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847

A bustum is a type of cremation in which the pyre and the burial occupy the same place.

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